Differential risk for Lyme disease along hiking trail, Germany

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1704-1706

  Richter, Dania ^a   Matuschka, Franz Rainer ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLOW; GERMANY; INFECTION RISK; LAND USE; LYME DISEASE; MEADOW; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PASTURELAND; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; TICK;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE VECTORS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052169607     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1709.101523     Document Type: Article

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